Sylvano Bussotti ((1931-2021) was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, but also a painter, set and costume designer, opera director, writer and academic teacher.

As a composer he was influenced by the twelve-tone music of Webern and later John Cage. Examples of his use of graphic notation in his pieces, often reflecting his personal life, included La Passion selon Sade and Lorenzaccio. He was a composer of the Florentine artistic school, that has been active since the end of World War II. He experimented with the interaction between sound and vision, a synaesthesis of art derived from historical avant-gardes, from Kandinsky to futurism, to Scriabin and Schoenberg, all the way to Bauhaus.

Guitarist Alberto Mesirca has been closely associated with Bussotti during his life and this new recording is a tribute to a great master and thinker. Bussotti’s surviving partner Rocco Quaglia wrote affectionately: “I attended the concert by Alberto Mesirca and Luca Scarlini, performers of a truly high level both interpretive and emotional, their technical and vocal prowess is capable of shaking and provoking, in the listener, intense feelings of pleasure and wonder. It makes me very happy to hear about the possibility of recording a CD giving a larger audience the same emotion I felt. Well done guys!”